The Life of Galileo

Science and truth

by Sandor Slomovits

posted 3/19/2009

Bertolt Brecht wrote The Life of Galileo between 1937 and 1939 as a response to Nazi censorship and manipulation of the work of scientists and artists. Among numerous other examples, the Nazis dismissed Einstein’s brilliant theories as “Jewish science” and jailed and persecuted many artists, Jewish and not. Brecht, like Einstein, fled Germany before the

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